Tamale Pie With Cornbread Crust Recipes

TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a baking dish (square dish or round pie pan)
• Mix together the dry ingredients in a large bowl. These include cornmeal, all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir these with a fork to combine.
• Add the egg, sour cream and corn to the dry ingredients and mix.
• Pour the cornbread mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake the corn bread for about 15 minutes, it won't be done completely, but it will bake more once we layer everything on.
• While the cornbread bakes, prepare the ground beef. Cook over medium heat in a skillet, once the meat is cooked through, no longer pink, drain the grease, add the seasonings and stir to combine.
• Poke the cornbread with a fork all over and drizzle with enchilada sauce.
• Add the ground beef on top of the cornbread, then top with the shredded cheese.
• Bake again for another 30 minutes until the top is melted and bubbling. The sauce will be bubbling along the edges of the baking dish. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving.

TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Making the Filling: In a large skillet over medium-high heat, warm the oil until hot. Add the onion, green pepper and jalapeños, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
• Reduce the heat to medium and add the ground beef to the pan. Cook, stirring occasionally to break up the meat, until browned, 5 to 10 minutes. Once the meat is browned, add the onion mixture back to the pan. Stir in the corn, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, chili powder, cumin and salt. Stir well to ensure that the spices and the tomato paste are evenly distributed. Bring to a simmer, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand while preparing the cornbread topping.
• Make the Cornbread Topping: In a large bowl, whisk together the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, eggs, and melted butter. Add the buttermilk mixture to the dry ingredients and use a rubber spatula to gently mix it together, taking care not to overmix the cornbread batter.
• Assemble & Bake the Pie: Stir the olives (if using) and shredded cheese into the beef mixture and pour it into a 9x13-inch baking dish, smoothing the top. Pour the cornbread batter over the filling, using a spatula to spread it into an even layer. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow the pie to rest for 15 minutes before serving.

NOT-SO-CORNY TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Heat oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat; saute onion until lightly browned, 5 to 10 minutes. Add ground beef; cook and stir until beef is browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes. Mix pinto beans and black beans into beef mixture.
• Sprinkle Mexican cheese blend over beef-bean mixture; stir. Mix diced tomatoes with green chile peppers into beef-bean mixture.
• Mix corn bread mix, milk, and eggs together in a bowl until batter is smooth. Spread batter over top of beef-bean mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cornbread comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes.

EASY OLD SCHOOL TAMALE PIE (WITHOUT JIFFY!)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400ºF. Grease a cast iron skillet with butter or spray a pie plate, 11X7 pan, or 9X9 pan with cooking spray.
• Whisk together cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add egg, melted butter, milk, and cream style corn. Whisk to combine. Pour into prepared baking dish and bake for 20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean and edges are golden brown. Remove from oven and decrease oven temperature to 375ºF.
• Use the handle of a wooden spoon to poke holes all over the cornbread surface. Pour 1/2 can enchilada sauce on top and spread evenly over cornbread. Set aside.
• While cornbread is baking, begin to make filling. In a large skillet brown beef over medium high heat and drain, if necessary. To the browned beef stir in remaining enchilada sauce, salsa, and chili powder. Bring to a boil and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes until thickened.
• Spread beef filling over cornbread. Top with cheese and return to 375ºF oven for 15 minutes, or until cheese is bubbly. Let sit for 5-10 minutes before cutting. Serve with additional salsa, cilantro, sour cream, and sliced avocado.

CORNBREAD TAMALE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Grease a 3-quart high-sided casserole dish with cooking spray. In a large skillet, saute the beef and onion over medium-high heat until the meat is brown and the onion translucent, about 10 minutes. Then add the beans, corn, tomato sauce, broth, bell pepper (if using), chili powder, cumin, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Simmer for 15 minutes. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and teaspoon salt. In a small bowl whisk together the egg, milk and oil until combined. Whisk the milk mixture into the flour mixture until combined. Spread the meat mixture into the casserole dish and cover with the corn bread topping. The topping will disappear into the meat mixture but will rise during baking and form a layer of corn bread. Bake until the corn bread is brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

TAMALE PIE WITH CHEESE CORNMEAL TOPPING

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients. Preheat oven to 375 F.
• Grease a 2 1/2-quart or 9-by-13-by-2-inch baking dish.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add ground beef and cook, stirring, until beef is no longer pink.
• Add chopped onion, garlic, and bell pepper; cook for 2 minutes, or until just tender.
• Pour off excess fat.
• Stir tomatoes, corn, and seasonings into ground beef mixture and simmer for about 5 minutes longer.
• Mix 1/2 cup cornmeal with 1 cup water. Stir into ground beef mixture. Cover and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes.
• Add sliced olives to beef mixture and stir to blend thoroughly.
• Pour beef mixture into prepared baking dish. Set aside while you make topping.
• In a medium saucepan, heat 1 1/2 cups milk with 1 teaspoon salt and the butter. When milk is hot but not boiling, gradually stir in 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal. Continue cooking until thickened, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat and stir, then add cheese and beaten eggs. Stir to blend.
• Pour topping over ground beef mixture and spread evenly to edges of casserole.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

PORK TAMALE POT PIE WITH CORNBREAD CRUST

Steps:

• Make pork mixture: In a large skillet cook onion and bell peppers in the oil over moderately-low heat, stirring, until the onion is softened.
• Add the pork and cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring and breaking up any lumps, until the pork is no longer pink.
• Stir in tomato sauce, paste, corn, cumin, allspice, chili powder, Worcestershire Sauce, 1 tsp Tabasco, cornmeal and season to taste.
• Simmer mixture, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes, and add the additional Tabasco if necessary.
• Spoon mixture into shallow 2 ½ quart casserole.
• (may be made 1 day in advance).
• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Make topping: Into a bowl, sift together flour, cornmeal, sugar and baking powder; add the butter, milk and the egg, and stir the batter until it is just combined.
• Stir in cheddar and chili peppers and drop batter by large spoonfuls around edge of casserole.
• Bake for 10 minutes then reduce heat to 350F and bake 30 minutes longer.

TAMALE PIE WITH CHEDDAR & CORNMEAL CRUST

Steps:

• Grease 13x9x2 baking dish.
• In a large skillet heat oil add the peppers and onions saute for 5 minutes.
• Add beef to pan mixing to crumble cooking about about 5 minutes.
• Stir in remaining ingredients plus 1/4 cup beer.
• Put into prepared pan and set aside.
• In a large bowl combine all dry ingredients, stir to mix well.
• In an other bowl, whisk yogurt,eggs,and oil to blend.
• Stir in 3/4 cup cheese, scallions and jalapeño.
• Pour yogurt mixture over the cornmeal mixture and stir just till blended.
• Top the filling with crust mixture.
• Sprinkle remaining cheese on top and bake for 30 minutes.

TAMALE PIE WITH CORNBREAD CRUST

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease. Add onion, jalapeno pepper, green chile peppers, garlic, cumin, and chili powder; saute until onion and jalapeno are soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Add enchilada sauce and simmer for 30 minutes.
• While the sauce is simmering, preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Spray an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
• Mix buttermilk, cornmeal, egg, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl. Pour into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the oven until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and poke holes in the cornbread with a wooden spoon. Reduce heat to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Pour simmering meat mixture on top of the cornbread. Top with shredded Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses. Return to the oven and bake until cheese is melted, 5 to 10 minutes.